The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.
It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual
No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.
We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground, and grow up into benevolence in the minds of others, and all of them will bear fruit of happiness in the bosom whence they spring.